Sajid Javid has said 'we need to be more careful' when it comes to transgender people as he backed the government's position on conversion therapy.
Sajid Javid has said"we need to be more careful" when it comes to transgender people as he backed the government's position on conversion therapy.
The health secretary said it is"absolutely right" that conversion therapy is banned"for LGBT people" but said a"more sensitive approach" needs to be taken when it comes to those who are transgender. Last week, the government changed plans for banning conversion therapy - attempts to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity - that had first been set out in 2018 by then prime minister Theresa May.
But the government now plans to ban only gay conversion therapy, not trans conversion therapy - saying that in the case of the latter only that it would carry out further work to consider the issue. "When it comes to conversion therapy, it is absolutely right, as the government has said, that we ban the so-called conversion therapy for LGBT people," Mr Javid told Sky News.
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